X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.125] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.6) with ESMTP id 3061486 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:34:53 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=71.74.56.125; envelope-from=clouduster@austin.rr.com Received: from [10.0.0.99] (really [70.113.77.184]) by hrndva-omta03.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20080804223414.NQQQ26780.hrndva-omta03.mail.rr.com@[10.0.0.99]> for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 22:34:14 +0000 Message-ID: <489783E3.9030206@austin.rr.com> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:34:11 -0500 From: Dennis Haverlah User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Trip to Oshkosh - 2008 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------040300040109030002000705" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040300040109030002000705 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Oshkosh Trip Notes -2008 <>I flew my RX-8 Renesis powered RV - 7A to Oshkosh on Sunday and left on Thursday. Great Trip!! Tracy Crook, Paul Lamar and Dave Atkins also were there. Tracy and Dave flew their RV's and had them on display. We all parked together in the home built - alternate engine display area adjacent to runway 36. We had lots of interest in the rotary conversions and Tracy was busy talking to visitors continuously. I had a great time visiting with Tracy during the fly-in!! <> My brother and I flew in my RV so we were fully loaded with tents, clothes etc. My max. take-off weight is 1850# and I had to remove 12 gallons of fuel after we loaded our stuff! <> Sunday we flew from the Austin area (40XS) to Fayetteville (FYV) than Monmouth, Il. (C66) and on to OSH. Total distance was 1120 miles. I used Airnav.com to plan the route to use Mogas. The first two legs were at 7500 ft. altitude. Coming home we stopped at De Kalb (DKB) and spent some time with my relatives. <> From De Kalb we flew to Fayetteville and than to Austin at 8500 ft. The following is typical engine data from the EM-2. <> Altitude - 8500ft. Oil Press. - 78 psi OAT - 76 F Oil temp. - 199 F MP - 21 in. hg Oil pan temp - 127 F RPM - 5700 Water temp - 178 F TAS- 158 mph GPH - 7.4 MPG - 21.3 <>Normally the cruise fuel economy was 21 to 23 MPG. depending on how lean of peak I was running. <> Friday afternoon I departed Fayetteville Ark. and at 500 ft altitude the OAT was reading 104 F! As my oil temp reached 215 F and my water reached 200 F, I reduced power to 24 in-hg and climbed at 135 mph. The oil temp came down to 212 and the water went to 191 F with plenty of climb rate! My maximum oil temperature in the oil pan reached 245 F. during the climb to 8500. <> I flew 2130 miles, climbed to 7500 or 8500 feet five times and had two long taxi times at Oshkosh while using about 128 gallons of auto-fuel for the trip. Dennis H. <> --------------040300040109030002000705 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Oshkosh Trip Notes -2008

<>I flew my RX-8 Renesis powered RV - 7A to Oshkosh on Sunday and left on Thursday. Great Trip!! Tracy Crook, Paul Lamar and Dave Atkins also were there. Tracy and Dave flew their RV’s and had them on display. We all parked together in the home built – alternate engine display area adjacent to runway 36. We had lots of interest in the rotary conversions and Tracy was busy talking to visitors continuously. I had a great time visiting with Tracy during the fly-in!! <>

My brother and I flew in my RV so we were fully loaded with tents, clothes etc. My max. take-off weight is 1850# and I had to remove 12 gallons of fuel after we loaded our stuff! <>
Sunday we flew from the Austin area (40XS) to Fayetteville (FYV) than Monmouth, Il. (C66) and on to OSH. Total distance was 1120 miles. I used Airnav.com to plan the route to use Mogas. The first two legs were at 7500 ft. altitude. Coming home we stopped at De Kalb (DKB) and spent some time with my relatives. <>

From De Kalb we flew to Fayetteville and than to Austin at 8500 ft. The following is typical engine data from the EM-2. <>

Altitude – 8500ft.                     Oil Press. – 78 psi
OAT – 76 F                             Oil temp. – 199 F
MP – 21 in. hg                         Oil pan temp – 127 F
RPM – 5700                            Water temp – 178 F
TAS- 158 mph                         GPH – 7.4
MPG – 21.3

<>Normally the cruise fuel economy was 21 to 23 MPG. depending on how lean of peak I was running. <>

Friday afternoon I departed Fayetteville Ark. and at 500 ft altitude the OAT was reading 104 F! As my oil temp reached 215 F and my water reached 200 F, I reduced power to 24 in-hg and climbed at 135 mph. The oil temp came down to 212 and the water went to 191 F with plenty of climb rate! My maximum oil temperature in the oil pan reached 245 F. during the climb to 8500. <>

I flew 2130 miles, climbed to 7500 or 8500 feet five times and had two long taxi times at Oshkosh while using about 128 gallons of auto-fuel for the trip.

Dennis H.

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